[Sca-cooks] Simple pleasures (OOP)

[A F Murphy]

Thanks for the warning! I cook and freeze rice all the time - easier
when you are single, especially if you like brown rice, which takes a
while. Once, I forgot it in the rice cooker, and by morning it was
astonishingly gicky, so I've been careful since... but I didn't know
about this. I've be even more careful about packing it up quickly.

I pack it up in freezer bags, pop them out and microwave them. I've
started making up other dishes in full recipes and doing the same. When
I am rushed, pull out a couple of bags and some frozen veg, and... it's
not the same as smelling that basmati cooking, adding some perfect small
zucchini... but it's better than store bought!

Anne

Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

>
> I want to remind everyone to exercise extreme caution when handling
> rice in
> such manner.  There is a bacteria (or other type of nasty, can't remember
> what or name) that develops in rice, in about 4 hours.  It is
> impervious to
> hot or cold.  That means freezing it, or boiling the sh*t out of it won't
> kill it.
>
> Make sure that your rice never remains in the danger zone for more than a
> couple hours.  Danger zone being from about 4C to about 65C.  That
> includes
> the time it was sitting on the counter cooling down, and the time
> reheating
> etc...
>
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
>